a. Describe the issue that you wish to adopt. The issue I wish to adopt is theiPad teaching in America, especially in language teaching.
b. Explain why this issue is important for the nation, Rhode Island, and to you personally. Teaching technology is becoming more and more important, since I am a Chinese teacher, I do hope technology can be some help in teaching Chinese.
c. Decide on at least five questions that you feel should be included in your synthesis.
1 Why could we use iPad for language teaching?
2 How could iPad help teachers and students?
3 What problems may we encounter?
4 Who is going to evaluate the effectiveness of iPad teaching?
5 What is the basic situation of language teachers using iPad for teaching?
6 What useful resources we can use?
The issue I wish to adopt is theiPad teaching in America, especially in language teaching.
b. Explain why this issue is important for the nation, Rhode Island, and to you personally.
Teaching technology is becoming more and more important, since I am a Chinese teacher, I do hope technology can be some help in teaching Chinese.
c. Decide on at least five questions that you feel should be included in your synthesis.
1 Why could we use iPad for language teaching?
2 How could iPad help teachers and students?
3 What problems may we encounter?
4 Who is going to evaluate the effectiveness of iPad teaching?
5 What is the basic situation of language teachers using iPad for teaching?
6 What useful resources we can use?
d. List some possible sources for your research.
Many articles on the website:
1 Teaching or learning with iPads, ready or not? http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-011-0540-6#page-1
2 Effectiveness of learning Chinese character using tablet technology
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-39194-1_32#page-1
(not list all here)